Evangeline, MLI style

I own lots of purple clothes too, but I never thought of it as a wall color until recently.

Lucille

{Full alert mode} Rhubarb crumble with custard?! Sounds deeeeeeelightful. Easy rhubarb sauce isn't fattening. Clean and chop about 2 cups of rhubarb, cook it down until it is mostly liquid, toss in a box of sugar-free gelatin (dry), stir well and serve. Raspberry gel is the family favorite although other flavors can be used. While the sauce is particularly good on real ice cream, it can be used on less-fattening items as well.

It's actually DH who wanted the purple. We have a very large room on the third floor and it carries the darker purple very well. Then the hallway and stairs leading to the kitchen are that purple sponged over with a lighter purple, which is the purple in the kitchen. DH's study is yet another shade of purple, lighter and bluer. I call his study "easter egg purple" but he really likes it.

Elizabeth

Now that I'm giving this some thought, my bedroom is painted a medium blue with a definite purple cast and the adjoining bath is a darker version of the same color.

I guess it sounded stranger to me than it looked. lol

Lucille

I do love that color combination. It just seems restful and elegant.

-- Jere

I love purple but doubt I'd ever choose it for wall paint or carpet although I wouldn't rule it out for drapes, furniture, or accents. While house-hunting I visited one place where the master bedroom was painted a ghastly lavender and the floor was covered with celadon carpeting. Throw in the old, yellowish lighting and too-dark wood trim and it was enough to make me sick. The house was vacant so I have no idea what color of window treatments and bedding they used in this scheme.

That sounds good!! Off to the rcipe folder it goes!

gillian

My stitching room is lavender, painted it just last year. DH isn't crazy about it but he only likes neutral colors (blahblahblah!!!)

Funny thing, I was just talking to a friend recently about how all the clothes I've purchased lately are lavender!!! I think it all started with Silver Lining's Dream lover, stitched year before last! :)

Joan

That and the money I spent on the materials less the fabric too. The point was missed a long time ago. Oh well, live and learn.

Who be BillyBoy? Who you callin BillyBoy? LOL

This spring a friend made a great recipe. Cook up some rhubarb. Let a pint of vanilla icecream soften. Stir in the rhubarb and pour half the mixture into the cake pan with a graham cracker crust on the bottom. Over the first half, sprinkle some more graham cracker mix and pour in the rest of the rhubarb/icecream mix.

Refreeze. Unmould. Serve in wedges with some extra stewed rhubarb.

Very simple, but very tasty - given you like rhubarb of course.

I just stew it and add sugar at the end. Love the stuff, used to eat it raw too!

Cheryl

Elizabeth's home has lots of purple, including the stair!

Cheryl

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Billy Boy Clinton. Such an infinitely more interesting, vital person than GWB. If I had the choice for a weekend with one, every time I would pick Bill. If it had to be GWB, well I do declare, I would shoot myself lol

DH's best buddy has moved here from upstate NY. I had a few good giggles with the color choices for the house he had built. His kitchen is dark red and black, the main living area is Jersey Cream, one bedroom is "Hot Mustard" (how any one will ever get any sleep is a mystery to me). But the killer is "pool blue" which has become "tidy bowl blue" in one bathroom. Talk about overpowering.

I did warn him.

Cheryl

I should get him together with my friends DIL. She has an orange dining room and uses old odd pieces of fabric culled from stuff she collected from all over the world. She was an army brat and lived in weird places like a small town in Egypt, several places in North Africa and all over Europe. The rest of her house is similarly decorated and she too has every room a different, and striking color. Oddly enough it all comes together and certainly looks "interesting."

Lucille

ps--All shades of blue are now and have always been my very favorite colors but I'll never, ever think of one particular shade as anything but Tidy Bowl Blue again.

Sounds wonderful. Maybe I could even get Jim to eat it!

Gill

Lucille wrote

You know someone else too---one weekend last summer while DH was away DD and I painted the bathroom a lovely purple to go with the purple in a new shower curtain with a frog pattern. Poor DH was quite lost for words. Dawne

Chris, you need to come OUT of the closet with your inner purple! I'm not a purple person, but I'm a wedgewood blue person and when I painted my bathroom that color, in Ralph Lauren Suede paint, I had some strange looks, but everyone who comes out of that bathroom loves it. And I remember a big thing a while back about people hanging needlework in the bathroom, but in my guest bathroom is hanging "Feather's and Friend's" and she looks beautiful on those wedgewood blue walls.

So, let your inner purple come out! LOL